1 person dead, another injured in Avondale shooting

A shooting early Sunday in an Avondale sports bar's parking lot left one man dead and a woman injured, police said.

Vicent Grant, 30, was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

Sgt. Thomas Alt, an Avondale police spokesman, said an officer was in his patrol car at about 2 a.m. when he heard a gunshot near the Lighthouse sports bar and grill at El Mirage and Indian School roads. When he got out of his vehicle, the officer saw a man who had been shot in the parking lot and began to administer first aid, but the man had died, Alt said.

A woman injured in the incident was taken to a hospital, Alt said, adding that the incident started with a physical altercation.

Police were trying to locate a person of interest described as a man possibly driving a dark-colored, newer-style Dodge car with aftermarket rims.

Anyone with information about the shooting was urged to call the Avondale Police Department at 623-333-7000 or contact Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS (948-6377).